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Comment by iFitzGerald

This achievement might be a reference to a tv sitcom from 1965 which was called Green Acres where a man from the city goes to the countryside with his wife to become a farmer. The show has been on reruns for decades...

Comment by Blackbark

Oh memories...

For the ones that don't know this archievement is most likely a reference to an old comedy show from the 60's "Green Acres", a TV series about a couple that came from new york to live in the countryside to fulfill the dream of the main protagonist (Mr Douglas) of having a farm. However the farm proves to be a disaster and Mr Douglas quickly sees himself surrounded by a non-sense community of neighbors having only for company his stupid employee and his brainless wife.

If you never saw it, you don't even know what you lost... now go watch it!

Comment by brassband

This almost certainly is a reference to the 1965-1971 sitcom hight "Green Acres". I got the achievement, and then I thought, "Holy crap! This is from when I was a teenager. Relative to the crowd that plays this game, I'm old! How are these kids gonna get this reference? "

I remembered that "Green Acres" had been on Nick at Night from time to time. I asked around my guild, no one was sure what the reference was to. The basic plot of Green Acres is that two city residents decide to move to the country and farm. They pick the most worn out, beat up place in the county and fail at farming it and she plots to get him to move back to the city incessantly.

Of course, this is so much like a mini-farmville...

And for those of you who care about these things, Green Acres was a spin off of a program called Petticoat Junction which was a program about three teenage girls who swim nude in a watertower, (used to water a steam locomotive) and leave their petticoats, i.e., fluffy slips, hanging on the outside. This happened in the opening credits, and there was nothing racy about the rest of the program at all (and this was barely implied even though the show got its name from this habit).

The programs are almost completely different, despite being set in the same town. Petticoat Junction was a typicl situation comedy and you could imagine that everything depicted could happen. Green Acres was a comedy of absurdity - exceeding The Beverly Hillbillies in absurdity.

The action is all set in "Hooterville", which, I guess, given the girls' habit, is an appropriate appelation.

You should watch some of this stuff, I know you can get free episodes on the web, and learn just how insipid and boring TV was back in the 1960's. And, strangely enough, funny as hell, despite the limitatons.

(Hight is an archaic term for named. For example:"How hight thee?" (What is your name?)"I hight Brassband, milord." (I am named Brassband. sir.)"Very well, Brassband. Walk over to the TV, turn it on, and twist the knob around to 4. Green Acres comes on in two minutes and the TV will need time for the tubes to warm up.") (There is no modern equivalent. The reasons are as follows:

No one would walk to a TV to turn it on. It would probably already be on, and if it were not, it would be turned on using the remote.

The TV comes on very quickly, any time is needed for the digital tuner to lock in to the signal. When this program was new, the state of the art was a picture tube (and perhaps many more tubes, most likely) that had to be headed by red-hot filaments so that the electrons would boil off. In England these were called valves. A TV that came on quickly took 30 seconds, a slow one could take a minute or two.

TV had 12 VHF channels numbered from 2-13 (There used to be a channel 1 - and we still do not have a channel 1) There were UHF channels - tuned by a separate tuner that was typically like a radio dial - no detents (click stops). In 1965, most people didn't watch UHF. The tuners had separate tuned circuits for each channel and you twisted a knob to select the right one. If you had remote control, it was implemented by a hand held device that had tuning forks that were struck by a hammer when you pushed the button. If you could not find your remote, you could change the channel by dropping a quarter onto the floor. A circuit listened for the sound and when it heard it, it turned a motor on to change the channel. To save energy, some TV sets would not turn on from the remote - they were turned off. If you had small children you did not need another remote. A law was passed that required that UHF and VHF be equally difficult to tune. This resulted in the removal of all clickstops on some low end TVs. as well as silliness like splitting the VHF into two separate bands so that shifting from channel might require changing bands. Now all channels are selected digitally, and any channel can be directly selected.

No one worries about when programs, other than the superbowl, come on, unless they are on after a football game or there is a disaster that delays programming. They program their TiVo to record it, and they watch it at their convenience. 1965 was before home video tape, you watched it when it was on, and if you missed it, you watched the rerun the following summer. And if the programs were too subtle, you could not back it up and listen to it again, it was gone. (

I was pleased that wow paid homage to this bit of history.

Comment by SaudAli

Hey guys, could you provide a guide for this achievement ?

Comment by Kleynus

You can get this acievement if you follow the quest of farmer Yoon.You can find him in halfhill on the right side of the market and flightpoint(left if you are in facing the flightpoint)

If you enter the farm you're entering your own fase so nobody can disturbe your peacefull farming